Amazing Link Christmas Slot Review
A red living room, a tall fir strung with red, gold and purple baubles, presents piled at its foot: Amazing Link Christmas doesn’t hint at the season, it wraps the whole screen in it. The claim worth making about this one is that the decorations are doing very little work, because the game underneath is SpinPlay Games‘ familiar Amazing Link engine with tinsel on. It runs on a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed paylines, stakes from 0.20 to 50 per spin, high volatility and a total RTP of 96.33%.
The studio has taken this mechanic everywhere from Medusa’s island to the Norse pantheon, and it also appears in Amazing Link Frenzy, Amazing Link Medusa and the original Amazing Link Riches. Hit frequency sits at 28.74%, so roughly seven spins in ten give nothing. That’s the number that shapes every session here.
Base Game & Features
Wins are conventional: matching symbols land adjacent on a payline, wins run left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination pays on each line. Where several winning combinations land on a single payline, again only the highest counts. The payline count is fixed at 20, so there’s nothing to adjust but the stake.
The bet works in two layers. Each spin costs a total bet, and the payline math divides that total by the 20 lines to get an initial bet per line. Every prize value in the game is shown as a multiple of the total bet, which keeps the arithmetic easy to follow when you’re comparing symbols.
The paytable is a Christmas card. Bells lead it, followed by a stocking, a candle and candy canes, with the royals bringing up the rear:
- Bells: 1x, 2x, 5x the total bet for three, four, five
- Stocking: 0.5x, 1x, 4x
- Candle / Candy Canes: 0.3x, 0.5x, 3x
- A / K / Q: 0.2x, 0.4x, 2x
- J / 10 / 9: 0.1x, 0.3x, 1x
The Elves symbol is wild, substituting for everything except the Bonus and Amazing symbols, and it pays its own way too: 1.5x, 5x and 10x the bet for three, four and five. That makes it the richest symbol on the reels by a clear margin, worth double what five Bells pay. It doesn’t substitute for the symbols that matter most, which is a sensible restriction.
The base game’s other job is collection. Every Amazing symbol, a gift box carrying a cash value, that lands during ordinary play collects above the reels. That collection can randomly trigger the Pick Feature at any point.
It’s a quiet accumulation layer that gives losing spins a small forward purpose. It’s also the reason the base game never quite feels dead even when the reels aren’t paying, which matters on a game where most spins return nothing.
Amazing Link Christmas Bonus Features
Amazing Link Feature
Land six or more Amazing symbols anywhere on the reels and the hold-and-respin round begins. The triggering symbols lock in place and everything else respins, with three free respins on the clock. Every new Amazing symbol that lands locks too and resets the counter to three.
The round ends when the respins run out or every position fills. Symbol prizes are multiples of the total bet, and filling all fifteen positions awards the MEGA prize on top. All prizes pay at the end, so a board full of locked gift boxes is the whole attraction here.
The tension is in the resets. A run of early landings keeps the counter alive and builds the board one box at a time, while a stretch of empty respins burns the whole feature in three spins. Because the prizes only settle at the end, nothing is banked until the round closes.
The step between tiers is worth noticing. Six locked symbols is a modest board with nine respins to improve it, but every position that fills is a position that no longer needs to be won twice, so the feature snowballs as it goes. Filling the last few positions is where the MEGA becomes reachable rather than theoretical.
Pick Feature
The Pick Feature can trigger after any base game spin or Amazing Link round, never from inside free spins. Collected Amazing symbols set it off at random. Reveal icons until three of a kind appear and that jackpot pays out:
- MEGA: 5,000x the bet
- MAJOR: 500x
- MINOR: 50x
- MINI: 20x
The animation has no bearing on the outcome, and there’s an autoplay pick button for players who’d rather not tap. When the Amazing Link feature completes in the base game, all of its Amazing symbols collect too. A good respin round therefore also stocks the counter for the next pick.
Free Spins
Three Bonus symbols, which appear on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the base game only, award 10 free spins. The Bonus symbol itself has no payout, so it’s purely a trigger. The twist is that on every spin one reel is selected at random to contain only Wild Amazing symbols, which substitute for everything except Bonus symbols.
A guaranteed wild reel every spin is a strong guarantee for a 10-spin round. Bets and lines match the triggering spin, and wins during the feature add to base game totals. The round cannot be retriggered. What you get in those 10 spins is all there is.
Because the wild reel moves rather than sticking, the round plays out as a series of ten different setups rather than one fixed board. A wild reel beside three Bells is worth more than the same reel beside royals, so where it lands on each spin decides which paytable rows are actually in play.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
The tree is lovely and the reels barely matter, which is the honest shape of this game. Base play is a collection exercise: gift boxes gather above the reels while the paytable pays modestly, and everything interesting waits behind the six-symbol trigger.
The respin round is the best thing here. Locked symbols and a resetting counter give it a genuine build, and the MEGA at 5,000x for a full board is a real target rather than a lottery ticket. Free spins are close behind, because a guaranteed wild reel every spin takes the round out of the hands of luck. The Pick Feature is the weak one, a three-tap jackpot flip that’s over before it registers.
This one suits fans of the series who want the familiar engine in seasonal wrapping, and anyone who values a guaranteed wild reel over raw line pays. It won’t convert a sceptic, but under the tree lights it does its job. The presents, as ever, are all in the boxes.
Amazing Link Christmas FAQs
-
What is the RTP of Amazing Link Christmas?
The RTP is 96.33%, which is the total expected return including jackpot contributions. -
How do you trigger the Amazing Link feature?
Land six or more Amazing symbols anywhere on the reels. The triggering symbols lock in place and you get three respins, with the counter resetting to three whenever a new Amazing symbol lands. Prizes are multiples of the total bet, and filling every position awards the MEGA prize on top. -
Can free spins be retriggered in Amazing Link Christmas?
No. Free Spins cannot be retriggered. The 10 spins you start with are all you get, though each one carries a randomly selected reel filled entirely with Wild Amazing symbols. -
What is the MEGA jackpot worth in Amazing Link Christmas?
The MEGA jackpot pays 5,000x your total bet, awarded when every position on the reels fills with Amazing symbols during the Amazing Link feature. The ladder below it runs MAJOR at 500x, MINOR at 50x and MINI at 20x. -
How does the Pick Feature work?
Amazing symbols that land in the base game collect above the reels and can randomly trigger the Pick Feature after any spin or Amazing Link round. Reveal icons until three of a kind appear and that jackpot pays out. The animation doesn’t influence the outcome, and it can’t trigger from within free spins. -
What does the wild substitute for in Amazing Link Christmas?
The Elves wild substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus and Amazing symbols, and it can form its own winning combination when landing on a payline. During free spins, the Wild Amazing symbol substitutes for everything except Bonus symbols. -
What is the hit frequency of Amazing Link Christmas?
The hit frequency is 28.74%, meaning roughly 29 spins in 100 produce a winning combination. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Amazing Link Christmas?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 50.00 per spin, with the 20 paylines fixed.
